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Hongye Sun (孙虹烨)

3×3 · top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2009 · 2009SUNH02

Hongye Sun (孙虹烨) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.27, set at Beijing Open 2017, puts him in the top 5.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,140th in China. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since August 2009, he has put 979 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.93 in August 2009 to 9.27, a 66% improvement. Hongye has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time
9.27
signature single · Beijing Open 2017
979
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×39.2710.57
top 5.5%2,140 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed14.9418.57
top 8.0%775 / 5,922
Pyraminx4.286.40
top 9.1%1,083 / 10,224
4×439.9243.15
top 12.0%1,291 / 5,926
2×23.084.77
top 15.2%2,411 / 15,796
3×3 blindfolded1:17.89—
early days — 2 solves261 / 1,183
5×51:22.671:31.49
top 21.3%1,023 / 2,816
Megaminx1:30.411:42.23
top 28.5%861 / 1,678
7×74:10.064:17.56
top 34.3%666 / 1,261
6×62:49.473:17.75
top 35.9%744 / 1,349
Square-131.4143.58
top 52.0%894 / 1,362
Skewb17.9023.59
top 85.9%4,292 / 5,004

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Beijing Summer Open 2009: 26.93Inner Mongolia 2010: 11.59Beijing Mangshan National Forest Park Open 2010: 12.75Tianjin Open 2010: 11.93XinXiang Spring Festival Open 2011: 12.84Beijing Spring 2011: 12.36Human Rights Day 2011: 12.00China Tourism Day 2012: 12.66Beijing Summer 2012: 11.31Beijing Winter 2012: 12.16Tianjin Winter 2012: 11.48BUAA Open 2013: 10.28Beijing Summer 2013: 11.00TUT 2013: 10.59Beijing Winter Open 2013: 10.06Tianjin University Open 2014: 10.01Beijing Summer Open 2014: 10.07Beijing Autumn 2014: 10.32BUAA Open 2014: 9.98Tianjin University Open 2015: 10.62World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 10.61Tianjin Winter Open 2015: 9.47Asian Championship 2016: 9.49Malaysia Cube Open 2016: 10.22Beijing Open 2017: 9.27World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.189.2726.9316 Aug 200913 Jul 2017

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.27 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 2.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.